- Position
- C
- Number
- #19
- Age
- 31
- Pieces here
- 5
On the record
Called Shots →Zach Morgan appears in a major league game for the San Francisco Giants on or before September 27, 2026.
San Francisco makes two or fewer contract selections between August 14 and the end of the 2026 regular season.
Zach Morgan appears in a major league game for the San Francisco Giants on or before the end of the 2026 regular season.
Written about him
Seven more Giants signings, graded from the day each one reached the majors
The second half of the 2025-26 class: Caleb Kilian and Jared Oliva, selected to the opening-day roster on March 25; Eric Haase on April 21, when Daniel Susac went to the injured list; Gregory Santos on April 29; Wilkin Ramos and Buddy Kennedy on June 1; and Andrew Knizner, signed to a major league deal on August 11 after Susac's kneecap fracture. Graded as of each selection date on need, fit, price and risk: Kilian B, Oliva C+, Haase B-, Santos C+, Ramos B-, Kennedy B-, Knizner B. Their result grades follow at the All-Star break and at season's end.
At the All-Star break, the Giants' winter regrades to a D+. Only Arraez went up
The mid-season regrade of the sixteen 2025-26 Giants signings, as of the All-Star break on July 14, 2026, off each player's line through that date and nothing later. Arraez, an All-Star at .330/.369/.460 through 402 plate appearances, moves from a B+ to an A. Bader, at .170 in 111 plate appearances and on the injured list, moves from an A- to a D. Houser is a C-, Mahle a D+, Kilian a B-, Hentges a B-. Brennan, Oliva, Ramos and Kennedy, all off the 40-man by the break, are D-minuses. Knizner, signed in August, has no mid-season grade. The class, a C+ at opening day, regrades to a D+. The season-end regrade follows September 27.
Andrew Knizner Has Changed Organizations Four Times Since December And Is Now The Giants' Most Experienced Catcher
Andrew Knizner is 31, was drafted in the seventh round in 2016, and has spent a decade being employed for the half of catching that never reaches a batting line. Seattle released him in March. Colorado released him in June. His Boston contract ended on August 7. Four days later the Giants signed him, and the last major league inning he caught was in their building, on September 27, a year to the day before their season ends.
Zach Morgan Reached The Major Leagues On Monday Without Reaching The Batter's Box
Zach Morgan was a major league catcher for one game and did not catch it. The Giants called him up August 10 after Susac fractured his patella, sat him behind Drew Cavanaugh, signed 31-year-old Andrew Knizner off the free agent market the next day, and sent Morgan back to Triple-A. The league's own player record lists no debut date for him. There is a word for what he nearly became, and more than 400 men in baseball history have earned it.
